| Description | Bundle of correspondence mainly concerning donations of items owned by the Robertson Nicoll family to various public bodies. Including:
Letter to Mildred Kirkcaldy from S.M. Simpson, Assistant Keeper, National Library of Scotland, 8 September 1972, discussing her offer to deposit letters to her father from Lloyd George and other family papers.
Note by Prudence Kennard listing books and other items offered to the National Bible Society of Scotland in 1995, with two letters acknowledging the donation of archive materials in 1999 from Penny Phillips, Information Administrator of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Letter to Pamela J.G. Jackson from Vaughan Walker, Senior Lecturer at the Scottish College of Textiles, 9 December 1996, discussing an Ingrain carpet purchased by William Robertson Nicoll, for the Bay Tree Lodge, with notes and photocopy relating to this type of carpet.
Letters to Prudence Kennard and Pamela Jackson 1996 from employees of the National Trust for Scotland expressing thanks for the donation of the family's doll's house and discussing where it is to be located. Two photographs of the doll's house dated 1980 are also enclosed, with various notes and an account by Mrs Kennard of Punch and Judy dolls given to Mildred Robertson Nicoll by Sir George Riddell around 1908
Two letters to Prudence Kennard from Charles Hunt, curator of Marischal Museum, dated 1996, thanking her for her offer of Egyptian antiquities collected by Joseph Pollard and sketches by Catherine Pollard, , with an initial list of the items donated.
Manuscript list by Prudence Kennard of items given to Special Collections at Aberdeen University 2 September 1999
Anonymous manuscript of satirical poem dated 1850, possibly by a member of the Nicoll family, with the title "Monster meeting among the fishes in the British Channel, to take into consideration the Submarine Electric Telegraph, and its influence on Piscatory affairs", with contemporary illustration; together with manuscript transcription by Prudence Kennard, and word-processed version with note of thanks to Prudence Kennard for allowing it to be published in the C.N.M. magazine, undated
Letters to Prudence Kennard concerning the painting "Ordination of elders in a Scottish Kirk" (1891) by John Henry Lorimer (1856 - 1936), from the National Gallery of Scotland and others, 1996. The correspondence concerns a reproduction owned by the Robertson Nicoll family; copied background material on the painting is also included.
Notes on the family of Ann Taylor (1782 - 1866) by Prudence Kennard
Correspondence (three letters) between Prudence Kennard and James Keppie, secretary of the Scottish Printing Archival Trust, on the deposit of printing blocks prepared for publications by Catherine Robertson Nicoll and others, January to February 1996.
Correspondence regarding sale of Bronte drawings at Sothebys, 1980. |